No, it’s still entirely turn-based, it’s just the turn order system has changed. Previously you would pick all of your team’s actions at once, and then watch every action play out (both allies and enemies) based on speed. It’s the same way combat works in Dragon Quest, Golden Sun, and tons of other JRPGs.

I loved it SO MUCH until that stupid part where you had to race your clones to collect a bunch of hearts or something from each corrupted region. Summoning some dragons or something? Ugh that was the worst

SS didn’t have any camera control. If they added it to the rerelease, though, I imagine you’d hold a trigger down to make the right stick control your sword, and the rest of the time it just does camera

And 3DW has the perfect level of chaos. It’s not like the NSMB games where everyone’s crowded together and will inevitably fuck each other up on accident; there’s enough room that you’ll rarely bother your teammates on purpose, but more than enough opportunities to mess with each other on purpose!

I’m going to read the article, but I first wanted to mention that this is actually a really cute picture of Nathan lol

Not a hot take, but a controversial one for sure:

I mean

I mean, yeah, the payment system is the problem. Android makes you go through all kinds of hoops when you sideload apps or alternate storefronts, making it sound terribly dangerous to less-savvy users, so apps not on the Play Store are going to have way less exposure. The (theoretical) issue is that Google is using…

I mean, they know full well that they broke the TOS; their whole goal is to upend the TOS so that there isn’t anything to take responsibility for.

It’s not just TCG, though, it’s the VGC and Pokken tournaments, too. That’s more what I’m wondering about.

I wonder why they aren’t doing digital tournaments at all.

take the star, take it and run

Stadia is a standalone platform with its own technical requirements, and games need to be ported for it; Google isn’t just streaming PC games from Windows server blades or what have you.

It sounds like they might eventually pivot to powering cloud offerings of individual publishers/developers, rather than having a standalone platform, but for the time being their business model needs third parties, so I imagine this will have some effect on Google.

wait do we know who the new EIC is yet?

😭😭

It rhymes with “Link” (There’s actually an invisible z in there, confusing I know)

That sounds so cool!

It’s so interesting that this type of crime warrants a press conference.

I mean